Yuri Gorbenko

Management Board Member

Was born in 1958.

Graduated from the Krasnoyarsk Construction Engineering Institute, specializing in construction engineering, and finished post-graduate studies at the St. Petersburg Institute of Machine-Building. A Candidate of Sciences (Economics).

In 1977-1986 worked as a shift foreman, head of the concrete batching and mixing plant during the construction of the Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP.

In 1986-1992 worked as chief engineer, director of the concrete mixing enterprise, director of the administration for subsidiary holdings of IrtyshGESstroi, construction of the Shulbinskaya HPP (Kazakhstan).

In 1992-1996 worked as head of the building industry department of the Bureyskaya HPP of the company GidroEnergoStroy.

In 1996-1998 worked as general director of JSC ZeyaGESstroi.

Director of JSC Bureyskaya HPP since1998 and director of JSC RusHydro branch - JSC Bureyskaya HPP since January 2008.

Managing director of JSC RusHydro, head of the Far East division for the company's Far Eastern investment projects since January 2008.

For his contribution to Russia's power sector, Yuri Gorbenko was awarded several honorary titles: "Honorary Power Engineer of the Russian Federation" (1999), "Honorary Worker of the Fuel and Energy Sector" (2004), "Distinguished Worker of UES of Russia" (2007), "Honorary Hydro Power Engineer" (2008), "Distinguished Power Engineer in the CIS" (2008); honorary badges "80 Years of the GOELRO Electrification Plan" (2000), "For Services to the Russian Power Sector" (2003), "85 Years of the GOELRO Electrification Plan" (2005) and "For Merit" (2007).

Yuri Gorbenko was awarded the Order of Friendship (2003), a Certificate of Honor of the Russian Government (2005), Russia's highest public award - the Pride of Russia gold order (2005), "For Diligent Effort for the Good of the Fatherland" highest order (2007) and the highest public recognition order "Honored Citizen of Russia" (2008).